Before I know it, my feet always seem to carry me to Naufu Gendai.
This gallery — reached from Gifu Station by bus and a short walk — is a contemporary art gallery near Mount Kinka.
This time I dropped in to see works from the gallery’s own collection, but I was fortunate enough to arrive during an exhibition.
It was a solo show by the veteran artist Akio Kawai. Born in 1948, he turned 70 in 2018.
The works in this exhibition are quite small, so I took a panoramic photo of the gallery interior, but it doesn’t really convey much.
When you enter the gallery, this is the scene that unfolds. The works are so small that you can’t really make them out until you step closer.
Up close, you see that they are beautifully painted on FRP with oil paints.
《Summer and Autumn Grasses》— what a perfectly timed exhibition.
The linen drawing is a piece in which lines are drawn in acrylic along the fibers of the linen. You can feel the meticulous care in the work.
A quiet, calming gallery.
The works, too, stood quietly in place.
